"I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around."

-- Mo Rocca

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“I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.”
“It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.”
“I came up with my own expression. I like to make it hail. Yeah. That's when you throw change on sluts.”
“What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.”
“A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books
“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.”
“It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.”
“Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.”

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